The Government has very little money to tackle coastal erosion in Kerry, despite admitting that a serious problem exists.

A local man who tried to save a teenage girl trapped under a sand dune in Kerry has described how he and her friends dug desperately with their hands to try to save her.

People are being warned to stay away from sand cliff areas on beaches which are “inherently unstable”.

A teenage girl remains in a serious condition in hospital this morning after a sand dune collapsed on her yesterday afternoon.

A teenage woman is being brought to hospital after a sand dune collapsed in West Kerry this afternoon.

Beaches and sand dunes along the Kerry coastline are coming under increasing threat from quad bikes and other vehicles.

FIRE safety could be a concern for a local authority at a proposed €500 million gas terminal at Tarbert on the Shannon Estuary.

A FISHERMAN died yesterday after falling overboard in Tralee Bay while a search is continuing for the Polish boy who was swept out to sea during a fishing trip with his father.

AIMED squarely at the upper end of Tralee’s property market is Radharc na Mara, a small estate of just four houses at the Kerries.

A CONTINUING crackdown was pledged yesterday on any likely hooliganism and illegal camping this summer on Kerry beaches.

LIVES could be lost in popular Kerry seaside areas because emergency services are having problems in getting access to beaches, it was warned yesterday.

THE body of a male, believed to be the 19-year-old Dublin youth missing since early yesterday morning at Lahinch, was recovered last night at the north Clare seaside resort.

PROBLEMS caused by flooding and coastal erosion in Co Kerry are getting worse with each passing winter, it was claimed yesterday.

DONAL HICKEY has highlighted a situation in Castlegregory, Co Kerry (Irish Examiner, October 5), which could have a devastating effect on the local economy and ruin the traditional family seaside holiday there for many people.